Fires in the Mind

Knowing that students spend roughly ten thousand hours in high school and college combined lends debates about best teaching practices and how students learn more urgency. Kathleen Cushman and her teen collaborators present some suggestions for using those hours to students’ and teachers’ best advantage. Their answers and ideas are what make Fires in the Mind so compelling; chock-full of anecdotes, the book gives voice to the most important stakeholders in education—students. (School Library Journal) On the Fires in the Mind blog, Cushman posts on the book’s themes of youth motivation, deliberate practice, and mastery.